Grand Theatre
729 Wabash Avenue,
Terre Haute,
IN
47807
729 Wabash Avenue,
Terre Haute,
IN
47807
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Built on the site of the Variety Theatre, a vaudeville house. The Liberty Theatre was a first-run movie house, this theatre later was renamed Grand Theatre. After closing it was converted into a warehouse for the Terre Haute Tribune-Star.
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This is a photo of the Liberty Theater building.
Speaking of the Tribune-Star, this article claims that “The Liberty theatre opened on Sept. 15, 1918 at Eighth Street and Wabash Ave. It closed in 1958”.
A number of Terre Haute theaters besides the Liberty are mentioned in that article.
When I was growing up this was known as the Grand Theatre. I attended several movies at this theatre, one being Gone With The Wind. I don’t remember this theatre being called Liberty Theatre. Toward the end of this theatre’s life, adult movies were shown.
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Here is a new link to the photo mentioned in the first comment above.
The article to which BWChicago linked in a comment above identifies J.E.O. Pridmore as the architect of the Liberty Theatre. The article also says that the Liberty was not an aka for the Variety Theatre (which the article calls the Varieties Theatre in any case), but was a new building erected on the site of the earlier theater.
In addition, the article says that the Liberty was called the Grand Theatre from 1960 until 1977, and that the building has been demolished (apparently in 2007.)